The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-08-11

;0uuQSO 0e1eCte: Last winter Lieut..
Particle OF Fort Keogh, in his correspond
loss in cattle on the range It fifty psr cent,
for which the press attacked him severely,
bnt times has shown that it was fully as
great as no predicted.
Augusta, Ca, has been damaged $50, oOG
by a flood, which il subsidinR. The loss
to planters will be very large. q
Kansas is suffering from drouth. No
rain near Parsons since July 4.
The Northern Pacific gives notice OF q re-
duction in freight rates, taking effect Aug.
l. between st. Paul, Miune apolia, Minneso-.
to Transfer and Duluth and all points on
the Northern Pacific west Of Granite Ida.
no.
u. The secretary Of the navy has issued in.
structions that the United States steamer
Michigan shall be at Detroit on Sept. IA
and IL to take part in the reunion OF tho
Army OF the Tennessee, and at Chicago
from Oct. to 10 ior tho military encamp'
ment.
Tho following PENSIONS have been granted
Wisconsin: 8: Phillips, Ogdensburg; O. A.
A. Siensvud, Black Earth; &C. label, Alma;
r. sE&gleston Now Diggipgs; E. Gereaw
Chelsea; B: Elton, Boyd; =. F. Talmadge.
Evansville; J. Burke Sparta; E. Van Ant
werp. Sparta; A. Kamm, Arthur. Dako-
"a: Minors H. Fox. Bismarck; J. Severe,
jamestown; J. H. MrAllister, Freeman. =
At New York, John G. Downer shot and
inflicted probably fatal wounds upon Will
lam Byrnes. and shot and killed Daniel
Lehan, who tried to interfere.
Kentucky went democratic by about
81, 900 majority: The following were elect
ed: Governor, Simon Bolivar, Ruckner;
lieutenant governor, G. w. Bryan; audi.
tor, Fayette Hewitt; treasurer, j. w.
Tate attorney general, w. H. Hardin; su-
perintendent public instruction, j. u. Pick.
EFT; land register, Thomas Corbet.
In South Camden. N. j., William w.
Wiltshire, fifty-two years of age, and
keeper OF an oyster saloon, shot and killed
his wife Ella, aged forty seven, muir dere,l
Justice OF tho Peace William 8. Darr (col
ored) and then sent bullet through his
own brain, dying almost instantly.
The MINES ota supreme court reverses
the famous Lac qui Parle county seat con-
test. 1t also decides that tho St. Paul
City hallway company 10 empowered, by
the act OF 1888 to lay it's tracks upon auy
street in the city.
Ex-Congressman W. D. Washburn OF
Minneapolis is, with his family, ut the
United States hotel, Saratoga.
Thomas Tollafsen, Minneapolis street
car driver, was murdered by couple of
hi9hwaymen who carried off the money
box.
william A. Pinkerton, manager of the
Western division and the general office of
Pinkerton's detective agency, is in St.
Paul Tor the purpose OF est:lbl ishing tho
branch office in st. Paul, which is to be
under the superintendency OF w. J. Lead
| office and two years in the Philadelphia
| office, and is familiar with the Pinkerton
| work.
Adjt. Gen. Seeley has published an order
at the Fort Smelling camp declaring that
An examining board of four officers OF as
high rank as the exigencies OF the service
WILL permit, shall convene at headquarters
| as often as req uired for thu, examinat ton
| OF such persons as have been elected. but
| not yet commissioned as officers in the
national guard.
The secretary OF the navy has awarded
the contract for constructing new dry
docks at the New York and Norfolk navy
yards to ]. E. Simpson & Co., OF New York,
for 1,Oe1, $3.50.
The Hon. George 8. Peters, United States
attorney for Utah Territory, has since his
| return forwarded to Salt Lake City the
necessary papers to bring suit against the
Mormon church in behalf of the United
States under the Edmunds- Tucker law OF
this year. which provides that no church
in any territory shall own more than $780,
900 worth OF property. The Church OF
Jesust Christ, Latter Day Saints is aimed
at, and the suit just filed seeks to disincor-
porate that institution.
A terrible famine prevailes on the 18th
mus OF Panama.
division of Glasgow, to fill the seat made
| vacant by the resignation of E. r. Russell,
Home Rule Liberal. The election result
| ed in the return of Sir George Otto Trev-
| leyan, the Liberal candidate. Sir Georges
victory is felt in Conservative circles to be
| the severest blow tho Unionist cause has
| yet experienced.
Secretary Lamar il wearing trousers
made OF cotton cloth woven in Louisiana.
1t costs 81, 10 u yard.
PostmasteEs commissioned: Minneso-
ford, H. j. Mueller; Colgate. A. Ennis:
Friendswood, E. Bross Symco, l. Scanton.
fourth-class postmaster appointed-Min.
nesota: Green Isle, T. Bo]and.
| The annual report Of the Chicago and
| Northwestern railway shows q large in
crease in income and in the volume OF
freight handled. The increase in gross
earnings was over 50. 100000. The great
increase in earnings was in freight, which
returned 81 1928, 4s3, or 81, 1926, 239 more
than in the previous year, all of which re-
ing slightly lower than in the previous
year. One OF the principal points shown
Is that the company had on May 81 cash
surplus OF nearly $3,OOO,O 200 after proyid.
ing Tor all payments up to June 25.
At Honor Mich. George shot his wife
twice, the first time in front OF tho right
ear, the second time in the ear, and after
she Tell he ran behind Mrs. d. p. Hatch.
his mothe.-in.law, and shot her, the bullet
entering the back OF the left ea-, but not
piercing the skull. She fell, and be suppos-
ing he had killed her shot himself, the ball
entering on the right side of the head and
passing entirely Through it. Burton and
his wife parted. and she had instituted
proceedings for divorce.
Tim Clark and Charles Mccarthy. mid
dle'weights, fought sixteen rounds at
Havre de Grace, Nd, Clark was whip
ped.
Gen. boulanger's seconds publish a re.
port OF what they say trarspired at the
conference between them and the seconds
of NJ. Ferry. This report is in substance as
follws: Gen. Boulanger desired a serious
| reparation, one properly proportionate to
the gravity DIN Ferry 9 affront. On this &C.
count he proposed that the combatants
exchange shots until one was hit, the choice
OF the distance to be left to the seconds of
NJ. Ferry. Those conditions not being &C.
cepted. Gen. Boulanger's seconds agreed to
be content with an exchange of shots be
Three young nihilists murdered Gen. Ne.
vcatroff's widow at Vladikavas and stole
500 900 roubles. They were arrested
while trying to escape to Turkey.
A despatch from St. Paul dc Loanda.
dated July 81, says: "Jansse. governor OF
Congo Free State, writes from Bombay
that since receiving news OF tho arrival of
Stanley at camp on the Arnmihimi river,
no messenger has arrived from the upper
Congo, and the first news of any accident
that might happen to Stanley must be
brought by a Congo State messenger, OK.
pected at Bama in a few days.
Again does the president make it known
that he bankers not for visiting deleca-
tons. 1t is probable that lie will leave
Washington tho last days OF September
and 60 directly to St. Louis, and from
there to Kansas City, St. Paul. Minneapo.
lis. Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville and At
lanta. The St. Louis and Atlanta flafes